2019 presidency: All you need to know as Osinbajo, Obi clash today in vice presidential debate

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will today clash with the Vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Peter Obi in presidential debate ahead of the 2019 general elections.

The highly anticipated debate will take place at the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja.

The time is 7 pm.

The debate is being put together by the Nigerian Election Debate Group, NEDG, and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria, BON.

It will be shown live on all BON stations (NTA, Channels TV, AIT, Silverbird TV, etc.).

The debate can also be followed on social media with these hashtags #2019debate, #2019election and on this Twitter page https://twitter.com/NaijaDecides19/with_replies.

The following contestants will be taking part in today’s debate.

Vice Presidential candidates for the debate include:

1) Yemi Osinbajo (APC)

2) Peter Obi (PDP)

3) Umma Getso (YPP)

4) Alhaji Abdulganiyu Galadima (ACPN)

5) Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya (ANN)

BON chairman, John Momoh, has said that the debate will be streamed live on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

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